"Experience" in John Searle's account of the mind: Brain, mind, and Anglo culture

Wierzbicka, Anna

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"Experience" in John Searle's account of the mind: Brain, mind, and Anglo culture

Date

2006

Authors

Wierzbicka, Anna

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Abstract

This paper is part of a larger study that focuses on the word experience and its semantic history (in a broad outline). My main point is that this word plays now, and has played for a long time, an extremely important role in the thought-world associated